Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with microphones, wires and a glass of water. Hugo Black sat before it on a straight-backed, plush-seated dining room chair. The other guests of the Hamiltons, seated in the dining room across the hall, enjoyed a familiar view of the great man in his hour of trial. During it, there were three unprescribed noises not all of which were fully audible to the nation. Once little, Julie Hamilton, 5, came to the head of the stairs in her nightie and called "Daddy." Again with a sudden hum the Hamiltons' electric refrigerator switched on and radio technicians gritted...
...saga of Harold E. Dahl, the U. S. aviator who fell into Rightist hands while fighting for the Leftist air-force and whose pretty wife has interceded on his behalf with General Franco, this week comes to its climax-Aviator Dahl's trial. Moaned he last week: "I lie in this cell at night and think of her and myself alone together on some South Seas island. . . . Then I come to and say 'What's the use? I'm going to be bumped off by a firing squad...
Mitchell, who freezes his own back in Kentucky, proceeded to finish first in a cross country trial the day after his exploit. Said he, "It was nothing. I just kept on eating." The former record was 11 ice creams...
...under the present difficulties. Again and again in the press comes the plea that the nation must achieve more unity, that Japan must present a united front to the world, and that at all costs the present conflict must not be allowed to exhaust her resources before the anticipated trial of strength with her neighbor, Soviet Russia...
...think it is a trial balloon," Wild said, "to see how much effect the horrors of the Japanese situation have had upon the American public." He did not believe that the situation would lead to a modification of the Neutrality Bill, however, as "the President has tried in vain three times before to get a flexible bill through the Congress...